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  11. Mail Templates
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Mail Templates

To manage mail templates, after logging in as a system administrator or site administrator, click the Manage button to display the Management control panel, then click Mail Templates.

Mail Templates

Properties
Name A name for your template. This is for your reference only, it is displayed in the control panel and anywhere that an email template can be selected.
Type Specifies the email template type. This selection controls syntax suggestions in the template body editor, and can be used to filter available values in settings pages which select an email template.
Subject Specifies the subject for emails generated using the template. The subject can contain tokens and script (see below).
Body Specifies the body for emails generated using the template. The body can contain tokens and script (see below).

Scripting

The email template parser generates emails by combining your template with data passed by the component which uses the template (a module or other extension, or Nucleus). Email templates can contain simple token replacements or Razor code, or a combination of both. The data objects which are passed to the email template parser are different depending on which component calls it to generate emails and are normally described in the documentation for the Nucleus extension.

The subject will normally contain static text and simple tokens. The mail body will normally include HTML elements and simple tokens, or Razor code.

Simple Tokens

Simple tokens are included in your subject or body in the form:

(~property)
(~object.property)
(~object.property.property)

The start characters (~ and end character ) are used to identify tokens. The entire token is replaced with the value of the object and property. If the object and/or property does not exist, the token is replaced with an empty string. All email templates can use the "date" and "time" tokens, and all other available values are submitted by the component which calls the email template parser. Object and property names are not case-sensitive in the simple token parser.

Example

You requested a user name reminder for (~Site.Name).  Your user name is (~User.UserName).

Collections

The simple token parser can repeat a section if the data is represented as a collection type by using the [~objectName(content)] syntax.

Example

[posts(
<tr>
  <td>(~post.Subject)</a></td>
  <td>(~post.PostedBy.UserName)</td>
  <td>(~post.DateAdded)</td>
</tr>
)]

In the example above, the "posts" object is a collection of post objects. The content is repeated for each item ("post") in the collection.

Razor Templates

The email template parser can parse Razor code. Razor templates are used to implement more complex logic when generating emails. Razor templates can also make use of the extension methods implemented in the Nucleus.Extensions assembly, which makes it easier to generate site and page Urls.

Example

You requested a user name reminder for <a href="@Model.Site.AbsoluteUrl(true)">@Model.Site.Name<a>.  Your user name is @Model.User.UserName.

Razor templates are more powerful than simple tokens, but are more difficult to prepare. Razor templates must conform to Razor syntax rules, object names and properties are case-sensitive, and if you refer to an object or property which does not exist or the template has any other errors, the email template parser will generate an error, and the email will not be sent. Errors are written to the Nucleus logs. The mail template editor page has a "Verify Template" button which you can use to test-compile your template. This function won't detect all possible problems (some could happen at execution time), but it will test the syntax of your template.

Razor Parser Notes

Unlike .Net Core ASP.net Razor:

  • You can't use Html Helpers, because the Razor code is not executed as part of a Http request.
  • You can't use Tag Helpers.
  • You can't use @model, @using or any other directives. The System, System.Collections.Generic, System.Linq, System.Text, System.Security.Claims, Nucleus.Extensions, Nucleus.Abstractions, and Nucleus.Abstractions.Models namespaces are automatically available.
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